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Mark Donohue 1966-1975 - FIA Pro, Group 7, Endurance, F5000, USRRC, Can-Am, Trans-Am, INDYCAR, NASCAR, Formula 1 Donohue was the first in a long lineage of championship drivers at Team Penske. He made 180 starts for the team in his memorable career and produced 59 wins, 50 pole positions and six championships for the organization. He made Team Penske’s first start in the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and earned Rookie of the Year honors with a seventh-place finish. In 1972, he produced the first of the team’s record 16 Indianapolis 500 victories. In 1971, Donohue earned the organization’s first win and pole position – both at Pocono Raceway – in its rich history of open-wheel racing. In addition, he also posted Team Penske’s first NASCAR victory, winning at Riverside (Calif.) International Raceway in 1973. Donohue also captured the first of Team Penske’s 28 national championships as he claimed the USRRC title in 1967. Donohue also famously helped develop the Porsche 917/30, one of the most powerful racing cars ever created as it dominated Can-Am Series competition with Team Penske in 1973. Tragically, Donohue passed away from injuries suffered during a practice crash at the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix in 1975. |
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Romain Dumas 2005-2008 - ALMS, Grand-Am Along with co-driver Timo Bernhard, Dumas earned back-to-back ALMS LMP2 Championships in 2007 and 2008 on the strength of 12 wins and 21 podium finishes in 23 races. In 2007, Dumas and Bernhard earned six overall race victories and eight class wins, including six straight to end the season. The duo’s average finish of 1.4 in 2007 and 2.3 in 2008 helped lead the Porsche RS Spyder team to the titles. Dumas raced full time for the team in the Grand-Am Rolex Series in 2009, earning three podium finishes and one pole. |
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Craig Fisher 1967-1968 - Endurance, Trans-Am Fisher made three starts with Team Penske from 1967-68. He teamed with Mark Donohue to win the 1967 Trans-Am Marlboro 300 at Marlboro (Md.) Motor Raceway. Fisher served as a co-driver on both of Team Penske’s entries in the 1968 12 Hours of Sebring. Fisher and Donohue won the Trans-Am Class from the pole and finished third overall at Sebring, while Fisher was also on the team’s second entry that finished second in class and fourth overall. |
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Emerson Fittipaldi 1990-1996 - INDYCAR One of only three men to win a Formula 1 World Championship, an Indianapolis 500 and an INDYCAR title, Fittipaldi earned 10 poles, 11 victories (including the 1993 Indianapolis 500) and 40 podium finishes as a member of Team Penske. In his 109 starts with the organization, he led 1,473 laps and had two runner-up championship finishes in 1993 and 1994. |
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George Follmer 1967, 1972-1974 - Can-Am, Endurance, Trans-Am, NASCAR Follmer competed in 18 races across four different seasons and four separate series for Team Penske with five wins. Follmer won the 1972 Can-Am Series championship substituting for the injured Mark Donohue in the Team Penske Porsche 917/10. He also won five pole positions over the course of his Team Penske career, including his only NASCAR start in 1974 at Riverside (Calif.) International Raceway. Regarded as one of the top road course racers in 1970s, Follmer was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1999. |
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Brendan Gaughan 2004 - NASCAR Gaughan, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) and XFINITY Series veteran, raced a full-season in NASCAR’s highest division in the No. 77 Kodak Dodge during the 2004 season. He earned one top-five and four top-10 finishes that season with his best NSCS finish at Talladega Superspeedway, where he finished fourth. |
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Dick Guldstrand 1966 - Endurance Known as "Mr. Corvette," Guldstrand was the first driver to race for Team Penske. He made two starts for the team – at Daytona and Sebring – in 1966. Racing with George Wintersteen and Ben Moore, Guldstrand finished first in class in the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona – the first win in team history – as the team’s Corvette famously finished the race with a punctured radiator and with flashlights taped to a damaged front end for headlights as a result of an overnight incident. Guldstrand, who was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame in 1999, attributed his success to Roger Penske’s belief in hiring him as a driver. |
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Jerry Hansen 1968 - Trans-Am Hansen made just one start for Team Penske during the 1968 Can-Am Series season. He was a co-driver with Mark Donohue in the Road America 500 driving a McLaren M6A. Donohue posted the fastest lap overall but the team was forced to retire halfway through the race with a gearbox issue. A stockbroker that won numerous SCCA titles over the years, Hansen went on to purchase and operate Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway. |
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Mike Hiss 1972, 1974 - INDYCAR Hiss made his first start for Team Penske in the 1972 California 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway, filling in for injured Mark Donohue. Hiss made quite an impression after finishing second, his best finish in four starts with the team. His second start came in the 1974 Indianapolis 500, where he qualified third and finished 14th in the Norton Spirit McLaren. |
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David Hobbs 1971 - Formula One, INDYCAR, Endurance Hobbs made six combined starts with Team Penske, notching three pole positions in Endurance competition while co-driving a Ferrari 512M with Mark Donohue. He finished 10th in the 1971 Formula 1 event at Watkins Glen International in the Penske-White Racing McLaren M19A. An accomplished racer that is also a very successful broadcaster, Hobbs was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009. |
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Al Holbert 1973 - Trans-Am Like Roger Penske, Holbert attended Lehigh University. He began working for Team Penske while still a student and became close friends with Mark Donohue. The two teamed up for the 1973 Trans-Am 500 at Watkins Glen International, Holbert’s only start for the team, where they finished eighth. A three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Holbert was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993. |
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Sam Hornish, Jr. 2004-2013 - INDYCAR, NASCAR, ARCA Already a series champion, Hornish, Jr. began his INDYCAR Team Penske career in 2004 and earned four wins, along with the Indianapolis 500, en route to the series title in 2006. Following the 2007 season, Hornish, Jr. switched to stock cars, racing in ARCA, the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS). Hornish, Jr. earned two NXS wins and finished second in series points for Team Penske in 2013. Hornish, Jr’s best NSCS finish was fourth at Pocono Raceway in 2009. |
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Gordon Johncock 1972 - INDYCAR A two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Johncock made one start for Team Penske in the 1972 Tony Bettenhausen 200 at the Milwaukee Mile. Johncock started from the seventh position in the Sunoco McLaren before retiring early from the race due to transmission issues. |
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Bob Johnson 1967-1969 - Endurance, Trans-Am Johnson competed in six races with Team Penske over a three-year period, finishing all six with top-five results. He was part of a Sedan Class pole-winning effort for the team in the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona with co-driver Mark Donohue. Later that season, Johnson teamed with Fisher and Joe Welch to finish fourth in the 12 Hours of Sebring. In his four Trans-Am starts with Team Penske, Johnson earned a pair of third-place finishes and a pair of fourth-place results. |
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Ricky Johnson 1996 - NASCAR Johnson made a name for himself by winning seven AMA motorcycle championships in the 1980s before competing in three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races for Team Penske during the 1996 season. Johnson’s best finish of 15th came at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash. Johnson is a two-time winner of the Baja 1000 and a member of the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. |
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Brad Keselowski 2009-Present - NASCAR Keselowski joined the team in 2010 and instantly added his name to a long list of championship drivers. He captured Team Penske’s first NASCAR title – the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) Championship after winning six races and running full-time in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) and NXS competition. In 2012, Keselowski delivered again by winning the team’s first-ever NSCS Championship. He is credited with 16 NSCS wins, including five in his championship season and the team’s 400th overall win coming at Richmond International Raceway in 2014. His 28 NXS victories have also helped Team Penske to three-consecutive NXS Owners’ Championship. In six seasons, his 44 combined NASCAR wins are the second highest in team history. |
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Parker Kligerman 2009-2012 - NASCAR Kligerman made his NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) debut in a Team Penske car at Kansas Speedway in 2009 and promptly won the pole as a development driver. Over the next couple of years, Kligerman raced the TeamPenske No. 22 in NXS competition on a limited schedule, sharing the seat with Brad Keselowski and Jacques Villeneuve. Kligerman’s best result came in his final start, a seventh-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway in 2012. |
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Travis Kvapil 2004-2005 - NASCAR, ARCA Kvapil made his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut with Team Penske in 2004 and drove a full-season in 2005 in the No. 77 Kodak/Jasper Engine Dodge. His top result for the team came at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he finished seventh. Kvapil won in his only ARCA Series start for the team at Pocono Raceway in 2005, leading 56 of 80 laps en route to victory. |